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what do you get when you cross a yank with an old time samurai and add two kids to the mix? yeah, we don't know either. come join us on our journey and find out what international marriage is all about.

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Tuesday, January 9, 2007

...you smell like a monkey and you look like one too. Ahh, childhood. Such wonderful memories.

Yesterday I turned 30-something, which is a phrase that I've employed throughout this entire decade. We had plans to go out to a fantastic dinner at Chez Luca which is the restaurant where E7 took me the night he proposed. This in no way compares to the place I took him when it was his birthday (Oh, all right. I took him there because I wanted to go. So sue me.), but it's a great restaurant all the same, especially for the memories that are attached to it.

Unfortunately, I was too sick to go. So I ended up spending my birthday on the couch, watching TV all. day. long. and generally being a brat. E7 has the heart of a saint, so he does.

I don't know if I've told you about my decision to finally leave the job that's been the bane of my existence for the past six years. I'll be finishing up in March and the joy I feel just can't be described. It's put the biggest smile on my face and has made me into something beautiful, like Bambi, to which all the woodland creatures flock.

OK, that's going a bit too far but I am so much nicer to the people at my office now that I'm leaving. Who would have thought?

Unfortunately, people are trying to spoil the Zen-like spirit I've achieved by continuing to ask me what I plan to do next year for the program I work on. My repeated replies that, "I won't be here," seem to fall on deaf ears. Huh. Well, with my resignation letter submitted and "approval" received for said resignation (although why I need approval, I can't imagine), they can't say I didn't warn them.

I guess they'll figure it out when I don't show up on April 1st. I'll be unemployed but happily unemployed, if there is such a thing.

hey! I found your site from "blog her"- I'm trying to find more people who are in intercultural marriages/relationships! I'm American and my husband is Chilean (so it's an anglo/latino mix). I'd love to visit your blog more often!

Happy birthday, dear blogger friend. And remember, you get a birthday check for that fab birthday dinner. And grreeeeat news about quitting the job. Life is far too short to be in a bane-of-my-existence place.